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A South Kensington Gateway from Gwalior to Nowhere (2010)

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The 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition featured colonial simulacra, displaced native environments and subject peoples serving to naturalize empire. While settler colony exhibitions emphasized cities, the Indian displays reified the village and its crafts as the essence of India. This ahistorical traditonalization of India was sustained by an Arts and Crafts movement that also produced a critique of empire. These contradictions are embodied in the Exhibition's Gwalior Gateway, a seventy-ton hybrid of Hindu and Islamic carving built into the Victoria and Albert Museum, but now hidden from view---a parable of empire.

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Authors & Contributors
Nair, Savithri Preetha
Wald, Erica
Gibson, Mary Ellis
Shahvar, Soli
Qureshi, Sadiah
Pati, Biswamoy
Concepts
Great Britain, colonies
Colonialism
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Museums
Science and culture
Medicine
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Enlightenment
17th century
Places
India
Great Britain
Egypt
South Africa
Japan
Australia
Institutions
Madras Museum
East India Company (English)
British Museum
British East India Company
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